A high school principal with the Toronto District and York Region District school boards, Ruth Ann Whipp built up numerous student leaders through her progressive andInspired by opportunities she’d had as an undergraduate at York University, Whipp in the 1990s aimed to create a similar environment at schools where she was principal, throwing open her office doors to student leaders every Friday morning.
At five, Whipp was the youngest member of the Toronto Skating Club. After the club merged with two others to form the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, Whipp took up swimming, tennis and broomball in addition to figure skating, and excelled at all of them. That fall, Whipp entered York University at its new campus at Keele and Steeles, where she immersed herself in liberal arts. She was a member of the Founder’s College student council, president of the women’s athletics council, women’s sports editor of the student newspaper and competed on intramural and varsity teams.
The York Board of Education hired Whipp as a vice-principal at Frank Oke Secondary School for students with special needs in 1985. She was vice-principal of York Memorial from 1989 to 1994 and principal of York Humber High School from 1994 to 1997.leadership roles in high schools, says Wright-Howard, “so it made waves when the York Board of Education appointed not just a female principal, Ruth Ann, but two female vice-principals to serve alongside her.
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